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How do I Change my PayPal Account Password?

January 16, 2018 / Dave Taylor / Computer & Internet Basics, PayPal Help / 1 Comment

I’m becoming increasingly paranoid about passwords and want to change my PayPal account password to something super random. I use 1Password. Can you show me the steps needed?

Good choice with 1Password. It’s the program that I also use and quite a few of my security conscious friends also utilize to securely track site passwords across Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. And it’s great to have the information available across all my devices too, because sometimes I just don’t have my main computer with me.

Like many decent password managers, 1Password also has a password generation capability which is great because a program can be quite a bit more random in its selection than we humans can. We tend to do passwords based on birthdays, parents names, pets, movies, etc, whereas an app can just spew out a chaotic sequence of digits, letters, and punctuation / special symbols that makes for a far better password!

Let’s go through the steps and I’ll show you at the end how 1Password produces random password sequences so you can give it a whirl…

Log in to your PayPal account using your existing password and 2-step verification [you did turn on 2-step verification on PayPal too, right?], then click on the gear icon on the top right:

change paypal password

It’s the third choice you want: Profile and settings.

I have a business account so it might be slightly different, but you then should see a summary of different settings and preferences on the left similar to:

paypal profile settings

Don’t be sidetracked though (like I am here!) because in the middle section you should see this:

paypal change password

No surprise, click on “Change” to change your account password. Now you’ll see this, but you don’t want to just type it in and proceed:

enter new paypal password

Here’s where you would likely enter “FluffyBunny22” or something like that. But no! This time we’re going to use 1Password. And it’s easy. Just right click – or Control-Click – to bring up the 1Password context menu and you’ll see this:

1password generating complex password for paypal

As you can see, choose “Password Generator” and the window that pops up offers a huge amount of control over the quite random password that it can create for you. Ready to use it? Either click “Fill” or simply copy it. And the best thing is as soon as you submit the new PayPal password, 1Password will of course update your record for that site too. Done deal.

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One comment on “How do I Change my PayPal Account Password?”

  1. Rasu Shrestha says:
    July 26, 2019 at 12:30 am

    Seems like this page has all the solutions to my problem. I was searching for this kind of article to change my Paypal account password and I found this one. This has helped me a lot. I followed the same steps as shown in the article and it worked out so well. I was worried about my Paypal account password because PayPal is such an account where you can play with your money. So thank you so much for writing this article. I really do appreciate your work. Great job.

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